The Delta independent., 1887-06-07
COLORADO CONDENSED.

The elevator at Berthoud handled
over 200, 200 bushels Of wheat last year.
The State Sunday School convention
will meet in Greeley June 81. % and 2s.
DR.. Clark. the Denver abortionist,
has been sentenced to one year in the peni-
tentiay.
The ladies of Christ Church in As
pen held a fair last week which netted
them $4OO.
Grass on the prairies and mesa lands
in Pueblo county is from two to eight
inches high.
The value of the gold and silver pur-
chased at the Denver mint during May was
sl3s, ,6G4.5l.
The Denver base ball club is rapidly
sinking to the foot of the list in the West
ern League.
The Alamosa and Del Norte teams
are to play series of three games of ball
for $50 side.
Judge J. S. Emery delivered the
baccalaureate address at the Stale Univer-
''Ny ao's SuAuas.
Ten young ladies and one young
man graduated from The Greeley High
School last week
A cut of about 60 per cent. has been
made in the freight rates between Denver
and Fort Collins
A mountain lion. nine feet in length.
was killed on the ranch Of Joseph Murray,
near Fort Collins. recently.
Mrs. Langtry will be at the Tabor
Grand Opera House, Denver. for three
nights commencing Monday, June 6.
Evangelist Coates says the churches
Of Denver need ten pounds of dynamite
put under each of them and touched off.
The Board of Regents have appro-
priaied 6, 500 for the purpose of beautifying
the grounds around the State University.
The season at Manitou has opened
with an indication that more visitors will
visit that resort this year than ever before.
The purchase of the site for the Den
yer military post has been perfected and It
Is thought that work will be commenced at
once.
Floods in the Huerfano and Cucha-
ras rivers have destroyed a number of
bridges, washed a way roads and damaged
growing crops.
The railroads have agreed to make a
rate Of sis.I5 from the Missouri River to
Denver and return on the occasion of the
Odd Fellows encampment next fall.
OF the &C, $50. 600 acres of land in
Colorado there has been surveyed s7,.S7,-
iol acres, leaving of public lands and In
dian lands unsurveyed 9.c9a, GO acres.
A Denver ball player who made a
home run las. Thursday in the game with
the Topeka club had money to the amount
Of sI2.oo thrown TO him from the grand
stand,
A meeting Of the Anti-Sedimcnt So
ciety will be held at Golden on Saturday.
June II, when committee from the Gilpin
County Mining Association will meet with
the former.
The residence of John Latham. five
miles southeast of Akron, was burned with
all It's contents, Monday last The fire or
igina'ed through ignorance Of the workings Is
pf gasoline stove.
Mrs. Mary F. Shields, State Presi-
dent Of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, died in Colorado Springs last week.
She had been at the head of the above or
in this State ever since 1879.
J. W. South. n 800 stallion own.
nj In, ppt vt t..l to-,
few days ago under suspicious circum.
stances. 1t Is thought by many that he
was "doped" to death at the race track.
Orman & Crooke have obtained the
contract to build the Denver 4 Rio Grande
branch from Montrose to Ouray, thirty
miles, and will commence work at once. 1t
Is hoped to have trains running into Ouray
by the first of September.
There is n movement on foot to offer
n reward Of 500 for the proof establishing
the guilt Of anyone killing fish In Pitkin
County with giant powder. The citizens
who subscribe to the fund for placing 15O,-
300 trout In the streams around Aspen will
all association for this purpose.
James Hull, tho proprietor of South
Cheyenne Canon near Colorado Springs,
fell off stairway in the canon, falling
nearly fifty feet, striking his head Mt nearly
every bound, and landing in large pool Of
water. Strange to say no bones were
broken, though II is feared he sustained in
ternal injuries.
President Hagermnn of the Midland
has notified the citizens Of Buena Vista by
letter that his company would construct
wagon road from the track and build a
bridge across. the Arkansas River II the
town would grade the street and put in the
on tho west side. The town will
comply with the terms.
Four hundred and twenty-five men
are employed at the Grant smelter in Den
yer, and the daily capacity Of the works Is
400 tons. Twenty-three reverberating
are now In use and six more are
being built. improvements arc constantly
being made to these works which are the
largest of the kind In tho world.
Three suits have been brought against
the County Commissioners Of Weld county
lone by the County Commissioners Of
WashlsEtsx, sss by the County csmmIr